Tackling Crime

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Thursday February 25th 2010, Kingsway Hall Hotel, London, 08:40 - 16:05

Tackling Crime: Tackling the Fear of Crime

“For the first time, 50% of people are confident that the police and local agencies are dealing with the antisocial behaviour and crime issues that matter locally, an increase from 45%, while overall the number of people who think antisocial behaviour is a problem remains stable.”

David Hanson MP, Policing and Crime Minister, Home Office, 22 October 2009

Overview

Tackling crime is the most important issue for the public. If crime falls but people do not have the confidence that this is happening in their neighbourhood, their quality of life is affected and the benefits of reduced crime are not realised.

Overall recorded crime continues to fall and the risk of being a victim remains historically low, according to the latest British Crime Survey, 22 October 2009. For the first time, 50% of people are confident that the police and local agencies are dealing with the antisocial behaviour and crime issues that matter locally, an increase from 45%.

The last ten years has seen a sustained investment in crime reduction, not only financially but also in terms of expertise, new policy and legislation and a particular focus on delivery. However, new challenges emerge, with societal and economic changes, and perpetrators of crime continuing to change the way they operate. In the new crime strategy, Cutting Crime - two years on, the Government has refocused its priorities to ensure that the tough and proactive responses needed to counter upwards pressure on crime are in place. Community engagement will be more important than ever to reassure people that crime is being tackled swiftly in their area.

The Government is committed, as seen in its Policing Green Paper, to delivering tailored, flexible and local responses to the public priorities. The new single target and the abolition of all other top down targets was announced in the Policing Green Paper, published in Summer 2008. It set out a radical shift in the landscape for the performance management of policing, with more flexibility for forces and authorities locally to focus on those issues of greatest concern in local areas, coupled with greater responsibility on those agencies to demonstrate that they are responding to the public, through initiatives like the Policing Pledge.

The concept of safer communities and neighbourhoods is strongly linked to the public’s perception of crime and confidence in the policing and criminal justice system. This forum will offer delegates the opportunity to examine and discuss how they can build public confidence through customer communication, publicity and visible and effective community safety initiatives.

Agenda

08:40	Registration and Coffee
09:30	Chair’s Welcome Address Martin Davis, Director, Community Development Associates (CONFIRMED)
09:35	Keynote: Reducing Harm, Increasing Confidence The new crime strategy Cutting Crime - two years on Taking early action to prevent crime, including on burglary Designing out crime and the Retail Action Plan Turning the tables on offenders, including developments on integrated offender management Delivering responsive visible justice Putting the public in the driving seat Increasing public confidence and on-going policing reform The importance of partnerships and taking action at the right level to tackle crime Tackling not tolerating anti-social behaviour Ann Oldroyd, Crime Strategy Unit, Crime And Policing Group, Home Office (CONFIRMED)
09:55	Building Confidence in the Fight Against Crime What the confidence measure means to the public What people want in terms of engagement and communications Working with the media How people want to be communicated with Dr Helen Powell, Associate Director, Ipsos MORI (CONFIRMED)
10:15	Communicating with Residents to Reduce Fear of Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour Joining up a range of initiatives rather than one stand-alone communications project Getting good news in your local newspaper Innovative ways of 'Communicating for Confidence' Engaging with young people so they communicate with their peers Natalie Williams, Communications Manager, Safer Hastings Partnership (CONFIRMED)
10:35	Sponsor Presentation Claire Cater, Director, Public Sector, Bell Pottinger (CONFIRMED)
10:50	Questions and Answers Session
11:15	Coffee Break and Networking
11:40	Delivering Responsive Visible Justice: Community Payback National picture on community payback Pioneer area experience Findings and outcomes of the Casey Review Engaging communities in the fight against crime Sue Strickland, Delivery Manager,Neighbourhood Crime & Justice, Home Office (CONFIRMED)
12:00	Accountability, Payback and Respect: Reducing Youth Offending Through Restorative Justice What is restorative justice? Restorative conferencing Broader applications of restorative justice Restorative justice and re-offending: the evidence Working with the community and schools Benefits to victims Graham Robb, Board Member, Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (CONFIRMED)
12:20	Breaking the Cycle of Crime Through Early Intervention Developing effective partnership working at all levels Strengthening support for young people at risk of offending Reducing crime and re-offending through targeted community support Investing in education, training and employment opportunities for offenders Jackie Worrall, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, NACRO (CONFIRMED)
12:40	Questions and Answers Session
13:05	Lunch and Networking
14:05	Engaging the community around Crime and Disorder in Enfield Community based projects (Community Help Point Scheme and Safe as Houses) Involving the business and voluntary sectors in partnership tasking Reducing crime, anti-social behaviour and fear of crime through engaging young people Engaging communities in consultation Rod Bennett, Community Safety Information Manager, London Borough of Enfield (CONFIRMED)
14:25	Delivering the Policing Pledge Increasing public confidence in the police, working with and empowering the public to fight crime Delivering what the public want, delivering the minimum standard of service Increasing the visibility and number of front-line police staff Meeting with local teams to agree priorities Responding efficiently to calls Overcoming barriers in delivery What impact has the Policing Pledge had in Merseyside? ACC Stuart Donald, Operations, Humberside Police - ACPO Lead on the Policing Pledge (CONFIRMED)
14:45	Coffee and Networking
15:05	Building Public Confidence and Reducing the Fear of Crime in Merseyside Strengthening neighbourhood policing and embedding the policing pledge Providing a more citizen focused service Working closely with other partner agencies and communities to tackle local issues and provide long term sustainable solutions Engaging and empowering local communities Deputy Chief Constable Bernard Lawson, Merseyside Police (CONFIRMED)
15:25	Working Together to Tackle the Fear of Crime Model for multi-area agency working Facilitating more effective collaborative working Increasing the capacity and capability of forces to meet current and future demand Working and responding to community needs Best practice Dr Julie Wymer, Head of Strategic and Policy Development, Bedfordshire Police Authority (CONFIRMED)
15:45	Questions and Answers Session
16:00	Close

*programme subject to change without notice

Sponsor

Bell Pottinger

Bell Pottinger are communications specialists, ranking number one in the UK PRWeek tables for the last six years. The Public Sector division, headed by Claire Cater, specialises in community engagement, public awareness, social marketing/behaviour change, research, issues management and media relations, with extensive experience of working in challenging environments and reaching hard to reach groups.

Exhibitor

Astrcasting

Audience

The audience will be representative of the diversity of the issue and the stakeholders present will include, community safety teams, police & fire authorities, LSPs, housing organisations, CDRPs, jobcentre plus, drug and alcohol action teams, youth offending teams, town centre managers, transport authorities, neighbourhood wardens, victims support, children’s trusts, ALOs, education authorities, licensing teams, environmental professionals, planning authorities, social inclusion officers, community cohesion officers, schools, local criminal justice boards, prison/probation service, PCTs, central government departments & bodies, unions, academia, the private, legal & voluntary sectors and all those involved in building safer and stronger communities.